Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, co founder of the African Women’s Development Fund, has been appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the African Leadership Centre in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London in 2017. She is one of the three Co-Founders of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) and served as the first Executive […]

The Manda coaching program is an opportunity for young women in second level leadership to come together and learn from and with each other. On 11th October, the 4th CEO Forum was held in Accra, Ghana and brought together young leaders from across the continent whose organisations are making positive changes within their communities. The […]

The ECOWAS Court today, 12 October 2017, delivered its judgment in the case between Dorothy Njemanze and 3 others v The Federal Republic of Nigeria. The case centered on the violent, cruel, inhuman, degrading and discriminatory treatment the Plaintiffs suffered at the hands of law enforcement agents in Abuja Nigeria. The women by name, Dorothy […]

Her active role in the African Feminist Forum and Ugandan feminist forum helped shape both of these spaces. She was a constant voice for progression, and knew that the future of the feminist movement relied on inclusion. Marren was the Executive Director of the Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI), […]

Are you interested in learning more about African feminist theories? Do you want to learn how to be a feminist researcher? Do you want to know more about how to use Wikipedia to tell African women’s stories? Join the AWDF staff for an afternoon of trainings, conversations and deep critical thinking about African feminist theory […]